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    Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

    1. Green-tinged sunset through the Los Angeles smog.

    2. When you've had a nosebleed and you plug it with tissue paper, then a few minutes later you release it and there's a dark red suspension of congealed blood in mucus, like raspberry ripple.

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    Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

    You forgot Dali's rotting donkeys and all.

    John Constable: "The sound of water escaping from mill dams, willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts and brickwork, I love such things. These scenes made me a painter."

    Revolutionary talk when he said that, the idea something so "ordinary" could be beautiful. I like a view of rural England as much as most, but I'll leave the rotting planks.

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      #3
      Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

      Disused railway lines, crumbling factories in rural settings and bleak bogland...

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        #4
        Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

        In the display window of the factory, an owl made out of a dark chocolate Tunnock's teacake.

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          #5
          Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

          Sunlight catching the wind turbines on a hill by Neath

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            #6
            Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

            Britney Spears

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              #7
              Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

              The abandoned quarries near the summit of Titterstone Clee hill.

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                #8
                Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                Spearmint Rhino wrote:
                1. Green-tinged sunset through the Los Angeles smog.
                I've lived here for 28 years, and I've never seen a green-tinged sunset.

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                  #9
                  Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                  - Lovely old houses in downtown Detroit; boarded-up and left to fall into disrepair.

                  - Me.

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                    #10
                    Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                    Inca; it's cuz you're wearing rose-coloured glasses.

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                      #11
                      Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                      John Constable: "The sound of water escaping from mill dams, willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts and brickwork, I love such things. These scenes made me a painter."

                      Revolutionary talk when he said that, the idea something so "ordinary" could be beautiful.


                      Neither Constable nor anyone else knew it but it's very similar to a line from Leonardo's notebooks "The most beautiful paintings in the world are made by the cracks in walls." (paraphrase)

                      Flaking paint revealing flaking paint beneath, and beneath that. The remains of posters, on walls and hydro-poles. Peeling wallpaper over crumbling distemper or plaster. Any surface in fact that is rich in vocabulary and dense in texture.

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                        #12
                        Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                        Inca wrote:
                        Spearmint Rhino wrote:
                        1. Green-tinged sunset through the Los Angeles smog.
                        I've lived here for 28 years, and I've never seen a green-tinged sunset.
                        Seriously?

                        I must just have got lucky.

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                          #13
                          Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                          Slugs fucking.

                          Dungeness.

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                            #14
                            Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                            Me
                            Didcot Power Station
                            Decaying disused factories
                            Photochemical smog and inversion layers
                            The smell of the West End on a hot summer evening
                            Arkansas

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                              #15
                              Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                              Gianfranco Zola.

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                                #16
                                Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                                Refugees, slaves, famine and war, aka the photography of Sebastiao Salgado.

                                Of course, I don't mean it - those phenomena themselves can barely be looked at at all. However, Salgado's photography imbues them with a sense of the epic that is biblical. Perhaps even more than that, since they are contemporary tragedies.

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                                  #17
                                  Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                                  Meconium.

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                                    #18
                                    Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                                    The feeling one gets after a much needed shit.

                                    Rainy night in the city when there's not many people around. Like last Sunday in Chicago. It looked exactly like Gotham City in the comics.

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                                      #19
                                      Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                                      Immingham or Southport sparkling across the water at night.

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                                        #20
                                        Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

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                                          #21
                                          Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

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                                            #22
                                            Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                                            A large group of Welsh people singing.

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                                              #23
                                              Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                                              Southwyck House in Brixton:

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                                                #24
                                                Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

                                                Finishing a gigantic poo.

                                                Though that may have bee what Carcass meant by "Dungeness"...

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                                                  #25
                                                  Things which shouldn't be beautiful, but are.

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                                                  Factories belching fumes and derelict factories.

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